Managing Director, Social Outcomes
Sandy has 15 years international development experience in Southern Africa and 10 years corporate experience in professional services and financial services in Australia before founding Social Outcomes in 2014. She serves on the board of the social enterprise Happy Paws Happy Hearts, is the Deputy Chair of the NAB Foundation’s investment committee and sits on the Advisory board of the Australian Centre for NFP and Philanthropic Studies at QUT. She has previously served on the board of Hand Heart Pocket, Queensland’s largest philanthropic Foundation, the Australian Advisory Board for the Global Steering Committee on Impact Investing, the Community Services Industry Alliance and the federal government’s Not-For-Profit Reform Council. She has also taken an active role in growing the impact investing market and social enterprise sector in Australia and the region. Sandy was the Head of Social Innovation for Westpac, and was part of the team that built and issued Australia’s first social impact bonds and has gone on to design many other bonds and payment by outcomes contracts with state and federal government. Sandy also established the Organisational Mentoring Program at Westpac to build the capacity of charities and social enterprises and was involved in strategic grant making through the Westpac Foundation for many years. She is also a best selling author and speaker.
